NY Times on Avant-Garde Russian Art Collection in Nukuz, Uzbekistan

[Eugenia Kelbert]

maybe chameleon? or changeling - the meaning is somewhat different, but 
you keep
the uncanny folklore side of things.




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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:46:24 +0000
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> shape-shifter?
>
> ________________________________________
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> [SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] on behalf of Edythe Haber 
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] NY Times on Avant-Garde Russian Art 
> Collection in Nukuz, Uzbekistan
>
> Dear SEELANGtsy,
>
> I am having trouble finding the English equivalent for the word 
> oboroten'.  Russian-English dictionaries I have consulted translate 
> it as werewolf, but that clearly does not fit the context of the text 
> I'm working on:  a 1938 play by Teffi, in which emigres are called 
> oborotni, since they keep changing identities -- their names, 
> nationalities, professions, etc.  Ozhegov defines the word as:  
> "chelovek, sposobnyi prevrashchat'sia v kogo-chto-n. s pomoshch'iu 
> volshebstva" -- in other words,  not only into wolves.  I can't seem 
> to come up with an English word denoting this.  I'd much appreciate 
> your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Edie Haber
>
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] NY Times on Avant-Garde Russian Art Collection in 
> Nukuz, Uzbekistan
>
>
>
> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> This article may be of interest to many in our community:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/arts/design/desert-of-forbidden-art-igor-savitsky-collection-in-nukus.html?_r=1
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Ben Rifkin
> The College of New Jersey
>
>
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